World Poverty: Rights, Obligations, Institutions, Motivations
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World Poverty and Human Rights
D espite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement. The annual death toll from poverty-related causes is around 18 million, or one-third of all human deaths, which adds up to approximately 27...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Human Rights Quarterly
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1085-794X
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2015.0022